Hi and welcome
Hi and welcome
If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
Quote by Martin Luther King JR
Thank you everyone
To be honest I don't have good experiences with doctors, so I'm always reluctant to go to them for help.
I'm not under a doctor or getting any help with my depression at the moment. I did see a therapist years ago but I have severe anxiety too, so I was getting panic attacks at the thought of talking to someone, so it was a bit of a nightmare. I'd definitely consider trying it again though, my anxiety is better than it used to be.
What have your experiences been like?
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
With doctors? Well, I have physical health problems (for about ten years, it's the trigger for my depression), and all but a couple have been bad, mostly with just refusing to listen to my experiences with the treatment they'd keep prescribing. Like when I didn't improve, they'd tell me I was just neglecting my health rather than considering that there was something else wrong with me. In ten years, only one of them ever considered the impact it might have been having on my mental health, and did that mental health questionnaire thing to see if I could benefit from therapy. Before he suggested I might have depression, I never even considered it, so thank god he noticed something was off.
Can I be really rude and ask how old you are?
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.